Zettelkasten and Evergreen MOC
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” — Jorge Luis Borges
A digital garden is a personal collection of notes, carefully tended and expanded over time. As all beautiful gardens, sharing (or showing of) your garden is part of the process (learning in public).
A gardening approach to note-taking cultivates the habit to improve and tend (iteration) to our notes spaced repetition as a productivity tool. The zettelkasten need to interlink notes fits into this ethos as well.
Interesting Gardens
- Essays · Gwern.net – extremely well-made garden. Best use of meta-data I’ve seen
- Building a digital garden – especially like the use of footnotes
- About these notes – probably the most famous one, at this moment, see Exploring Andy’s notes MOC
- My workflow in writing and maintaining this wiki | Everything I know – a wiki-like garden, stored on Github
- creating digital gardens — Are.na – very interesting concept of blocks, linked together
- Welcome - Docs – build on Gitbook
- anagora.org](https://anagora.org/index) – wiki like
- Welcome! - Nikola’s Digital Garden – an Obsidian garden
- Table of contents | Meaningness – A book in-progress as a growing group of notes
- This one has fun icons: Start here
- Has good writing advice: Advice for writers writing
Software for gardens
(Primary) Sources
- You and your mind garden - Ness Labs by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Building a digital garden
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- Also: MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interweb
- And: (2) Maggie Appleton 🧭 on Twitter: “Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today. We have an epic collection going, check these out… 1. @tomcritchlow’s Wikifolders: https://t.co/QnXw0vzbMG https://t.co/9ri6g9hD93” / Twitter
- TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM on Twitter: “The BIG LIST of Digital Gardens Let us together create a big list of digital gardens created by the TfT / PKM Community. Let me get the list started with a few nice examples, and you add the ones you like or Retweet to get more people involved https://t.co/0Rbn529CYQ” / Twitter
See also
- Digital Gardens on Reddit